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This seems like a major crack down on the use of this particular scam. Alas, there are so many permutations of it. ACCO advocatingforu.com bbc.com/news/world-eur…

Setting up wildlife forensic labs in Asia and Africa, where illegal logging and wildlife crime pose series threats, helps protect our world’s biodiversity hotspots.

UN Office on Drugs & Crime is dedicated to developing forensic capacity to prove and convict wildlife crime.

#EndWildlifeCrime

Did you know snakes have clitorises? Megan Folwell's discovery has expanded our understanding of reptilian anatomy. Learn all about it in our new podcast or listen in tonight 6:30pm on The Green Room Radio Adelaide
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Great Barrier Reef’s worst bleaching leaves giant coral graveyard: ‘It looks as if it has been carpet bombed’ theguardian.com/environment/20…

More and more people are flooding in to save Lee Point. This is incredible to see. It’s not too late to call it off Tanya Plibersek Professor Euan Ritchie 🌏 🌳 🐾 🔥 🎶 Christine Milne AO

theconversation.com/wild-bees-are-…

Multiple frameworks have been proposed to quantify #Functional #Diversity across its dimensions, including richness, divergence, regularity and turnover (beta diversity). In a new paper Ecography we propose using neighbor-joining trees.

doi.org/10.1111/ecog.0…

An aging marine biologist inspects a giant old coral that’s fighting for its life due to anthropogenic heating.

Surrounding it are stands of recently dead and dying staghorn corals, for as far as the eye can see.

This is what mass-mortality looks like. theguardian.com/environment/20…

'This particular protest was literally about women getting killed' 🤬 #THISMUSTSTOPNOW abc.net.au/news/2024-05-0…

smh.com.au/world/europe/t…

Through publishing their research in ESE, a #project report with detailed methods and pictures from their #invasive crayfish management project can be found permanently archived on Applied Ecology Resources (AER) – download and read for FREE here:

britishecologicalsociety.org/applied-ecolog…

Our federal environmental laws are broken.

This morning bulldozers arrived at Lee Point after the Enviro Minister decided to allow destruction of habitat vital to endangered species like the Gouldian Finch.

Labor promised to fix these laws, but have delayed reform indefinitely.

❌ Learning from failure: an EU-funded project tried to eradicate #invasive red swamp #crayfish by mechanically excavating stream beds. Unfortunately, it failed but lessons can be learnt from this failure – find out more:

besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

Julia Jones @BangorSNS

What ecological questions would you want to ask of collections of wildlife images? Maybe which birds 🦢 are found in cities 🌃, are badgers 🦡 ever found with cows 🐄 ? Please help our new project to develop open source new search tools forms.gle/CmRf826AkJPkvh…

First case of walrus dying from bird flu recorded in Arctic 😢😢😢 theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…

We're breaking the news in English! A poaching gang wiped out 10% of the world's Javan rhinos. How could this happen?

My article for Mongabay (hat tip to all the great reporting in Indonesia on this) IntlRhinoFoundation 🦏, Helping Rhinos 🦏 WWF :

news.mongabay.com/2024/04/a-sing…

Leaders from the Torres Strait are suing the Federal Govt for failing to protect their communities from climate change.

With final hearings this week, for the communities involved, the outcome is a question of survival.

A thread 🧵
abc.net.au/news/2024-04-2… #auspol #climate

'STEM is the best career in the world' says South Australian Research and Development Institute (SARDI)'s Dr Hannah Brown - and we agree!

Learn more about the exciting projects being led by SARDI's women in STEMM: thepostsa.au/podcasts/2024/…
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It'd be great if actual researchers – not just research offices & peak bodies – made submissions to the ARC's 'Policy Review of the National Competitive Grants Program'.

This is a chance to have input into how the grant schemes are run!